European Countryside is an international reviewed scientific journal indexed and abstracted in many databases, including ESCI of Web of Sciences, SCOPUS, ERIH+, DOAJ and Google Scholar among others. It operates under the open access mode. It is frequently read and cited: One paper in European Countryside is quoted 1.32 times in Web of Knowledge, 1.52 times in SCOPUS and 4.07 times in Google Scholar in average.

The journal enables and welcomes colour enclosures (images, maps and graphics) up to A4 size. The length of individual papers is not strictly limited, only by its stylistic intelligibility.

The full price of an article is EUR 120, payable after the acceptance of the paper for publishing. Reduced price is offered within special numbers which manifest an occasion for organizers of conferences with related topics.

The web page of the journal including the instructions for authors can be found on http://www.european-countryside.eu/

Papers can be read on http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/euco

Papers should be submitted and more information gained from eurocountry@seznam.cz

Studies in Agricultural Economics is included in the Thomson Reuters™ Web of Science™ Core Collection. It is a ‘platinum’ open access journal which means that there are no publication or access fees of any kind. Five-year impact factor (CitEc, 2015): 0.12.

Manuscripts for publication should be prepared in English and sent via e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief at the address given below. If you do not wish to receive further alerts, please send an e-mail with the subject ‘unsubscribe’.

162nd EAAE Seminar

We would also like to draw your attention to the EAAE seminar ‘The evaluation of new CAP instruments: Lessons learned and the road ahead’, which is scheduled to be held in Budapest on 26-27 April 2018. The seminar website is http://agecon.hu/events/ and the official deadline for abstract submissions is 31 January 2018. The organisers are considering the option of including selected papers in a thematic issue of a Web of Science™ journal, and a final decision on this will be made once abstract submissions have been received and reviewed.

Dear Colleague,

The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food – Skopje is celebrating its 70 years anniversary and for that occasion is organizing the 3rd International Symposium for Agriculture and Food - ISAF 2017. The Symposium will be held during the period from 18th to 20th of October 2017, in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia.

The 3rd International Symposium for Agriculture and Food-ISAF 2017, is aimed to bring together the scientists and experts in the area of agriculture and food production, with an imperative to take stock of the current research on the topic and to stimulate discussions, collaborations and future research.

In this respect, we would be honoured to invite you to take part in the 3rd International Symposium for Agriculture and Food – ISAF 2017. The Symposium will be hosted in hotel Metropol, in Ohrid.

Please note that more details you could find in the First Announcement, attached to this message.

We are looking forward to your participation and to welcome you to Ohrid!

Should you need any additional information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the
CCIS conference book series and in the Earth System Sciences book series

(apologies for cross posting)

The Conference is organized by the Hellenic Association for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA) and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) in cooperation with a number of Institutions.

HAICTA is the Greek Branch of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA). Until now HAICTA has organized a series of seven successful international conferences.

HAICTA 2017 aims to bring together professionals, experts and researchers working on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment. We additionally aim to emphasize on the applicability of ICT solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges.

Topics

We accept submissions in all areas of ICT in Agriculture, Food and the Environment including but not limited to:

· ICT and Innovation in the Promotion of Rural Areas and Alternative Tourism

· Wood Technology and Wood Products

· Wildfire Risk Assessment

· Information Systems and Wildlife Management & Protection

· Spatial Analysis, Landscape Planning and GIS-based Analysis

· Supply Chain Management & Logistics

Types of Submission

Type of Submission

Length of Paper

Type of Presentation

Full Paper

6 pages min. - 12 pages max.

Oral

Poster

3 pages min. - 6 pages max.

Poster

Doctoral Consortium

3 pages min. - 10 pages max.

Oral

Industry Paper

3 pages min. - 10 pages max.

Demo - Oral

Short Paper

3 pages min. - 6 pages max.

Oral

Paper submission

All papers will be reviewed through a fully electronic peer review process by at least two referees. Final acceptance will be based on the review of the paper submission. Paper submissions will be handled by an ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM that has been set up for HAICTA 2017.

Publication

All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings which will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service, from where they will be permanently available online and citable. After the Conference, selected papers will be invited to significantly extend and re-submit for publication in two books of collective work that will be published by Springer. The first book will be published in the Springer’s CCIS conference book series. The second will be a book of chapters that will be published in Springer’s Earth System Sciences book series with tentative title: “Innovative Approaches and Applications for Sustainable Rural Development”.

Important Dates

April 24, 2017

Submissions due (for every type of submission: full research and short papers, posters, doctoral consortium, industry papers).

May 27, 2017

Notification of acceptance for all submissions.

July 3, 2017

Camera Ready Paper Submission.

September 21-24, 2017

Conference in Chania, Crete, Greece.

Tutorials

We invite proposals for tutorials to be held during the conference. Proposals should be submitted electronically by March 30, 2017 to scientific committee chairs. A summary of the tutorials will be published in the conference proceedings. Please check the Conference website for the list of tutorials.

Conference Secretariat

For any further information you can contact the conference secretariat at haicta2017@gmail.com or the program chairs.

The Conference is co-organized by the Hellenic Association for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA) and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) in cooperation with a number of Institutions.

HAICTA is the Greek Branch of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA). Until now HAICTA has organized a series of seven successful international conferences.

HAICTA 2017 aims to bring together professionals, experts and researchers working on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment. We additionally aim to emphasize on the applicability of ICT solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges.

Topics

We accept submissions in all areas of ICT in Agriculture, Food and the Environment including but not limited to:

· ICT and Innovation in the Promotion of Rural Areas and Alternative Tourism

· Wood Technology and Wood Products

· Wildfire Risk Assessment

· Information Systems and Wildlife Management & Protection

· Spatial Analysis, Landscape Planning and GIS-based Analysis

· Supply Chain Management & Logistics

Types of Submission

Type of Submission

Length of Paper

Type of Presentation

Full Paper

6 pages min. - 12 pages max.

Oral

Poster

3 pages min. - 6 pages max.

Poster

Doctoral Consortium

3 pages min. - 10 pages max.

Oral

Industry Paper

3 pages min. - 10 pages max.

Demo - Oral

Short Paper

3 pages min. - 6 pages max.

Oral

Paper submission

All papers will be reviewed through a fully electronic peer review process by at least two referees. Final acceptance will be based on the review of the paper submission. Paper submissions will be handled by an ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM that has been set up for HAICTA 2017.

Publication

All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings which will be deposited online before the conference in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service, from where they will be permanently available online and citable. After the Conference, selected papers will be invited to significantly extend and re-submit for publication in two books of collective work that will be published in Springer. The first book, already agreed, will be published in the Springer CCIS conference book series. The second will be a book of chapters that will be published in Springer’s Earth System Sciences series (confirmation pending). Also, selected papers will be invited for a special issue in the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology.

Important Dates

April 24, 2017

Submissions due (for every type of submission: full research and short papers, posters, doctoral consortium, industry papers).

May 27, 2017

Notification of acceptance for all submissions.

July 3, 2017

Camera Ready Paper Submission.

September 21-24, 2017

Conference in Chania, Crete, Greece.

Tutorials

We invite proposals for tutorials to be held during the conference. Proposals should be submitted electronically by March 30, 2017 to scientific committee chairs. A summary of the tutorials will be published in the conference proceedings. Please check the Conference website for the list of tutorials.

Conference Secretariat

For any further information you can contact the conference secretariat at haicta2017@gmail.com or the program chairs.

Hello and welcome to the Third Newsletter of the XV EAAE Congress

Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems:

Balancing between Markets and Society

Parma, August 29th – September 1st 2017Less than a month to the Contributed Paper submission deadline!

XV EAAE Congress:
The Call for Contributions is still out

The XV EAAE Congress Call for Contributions aims to foster discussion and interaction on new scientific developments and research opportunities among scholars and representatives from business, society and policy agencies

In particular, policy makers, societal stakeholders and agribusiness representatives are offered the opportunity to contribute to the Programme through organised panels which have an open format and do not require a scientific paper. Organised Panels appear particularly suitable to a problem-oriented approach to a topic, which encourages panellists to take different perspectives, offer different solutions and generally open out the topic to a mixed audience
The actual format of the Panels can be selected from, but not restricted to: Round Table Discussions, moderated by a Panel Chair, where Presentations and Q&A can coexist; Authors meets critics, where a couple of written contributions or well-known positions are discussed; Workshop-style sessions on works-in-progress; "Model UN" or Oxford-Style Debates, where strong advocacy for firmly rooted positions is required and displayed; Forums, where stakeholder and citizen groups have a prominent role in discussing scientific content
In this way, the XV EAAE Congress in Parma will provide an interactive platform for researchers and representatives from non-academic institutions to represent the scientific, practise and advocacy approach to the most pressing issues for agri-food systems and society

The Templates for each type of contribution and the rules for Submission are available at this webpage. Possibilities for organising (Project) Meetings and Pre-Congress Symposia are detailed here

Please take the opportunity to share this call within your network and follow our Social Media presence (at the bottom of the page) and here. Should you require any assistance or clarification, please do not hesitate to contact the LOC of the XV EAAE Congress at info@eaae2017.it

We are almost two months away from the Deadline for Submitting Contributed Papers. Do not miss the opportunity to submit yours!!

Proceedings of the 52nd, 67th and 89th EAAE Seminar organised by the XV EAAE LOC have been made available on AgEcon Search. More information can be found here

News

The Plenary Speakers

The Plenary Speakers of the XV EAAE Congress have been announced! Have a look for the Titles and Synopses of their Plenary Speeches and some Background Readings to get acquainted with their topics.
Make sure to come back to it as it updates with fresh information and important announcements!

Discover the Congress Venue

The XV EAAE Congress will take place at the Università degli Studi di Parma Campus on the outskirts of the city. The actual Congress Venue is split over two different buildings: the Congress Centre, at the main Campus entrance, and the Campus Auditorium, at the heart of the Campus. Dedicated shuttle buses from the hotels to the Congress Venue and between the two buildings will be provided as part of your registration

A Tasteful Opportunity for you

We have selected some typical Parma food products at a special price for friends of the Congress, to make your cuisine a bit more Italian, and Parma inspired! We hope the taste of Parma will reach you, enrich your dining experience and lure you into wanting to experience more of it in the flesh. Head over to the Made in Parma online store and choose one of the Agri-food Parma Ensembles selected for you only!

Studies in Agricultural Economics is included in the Thomson Reuters™ Web of Science™ Core Collection. It is a ‘platinum’ open access journal which means that there are no publication or access fees of any kind. Impact factor (CitEc, 2014): 0.18.

Manuscripts for publication should be prepared in English and sent via e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief at the address given below. If you do not wish to receive further alerts, please send an e-mail with the subject ‘unsubscribe’.

Winners of the Outstanding ERAE Journal Article 2015

The Board of the EAAE approved the proposal from the Editorial Board of the European Review of Agricultural Economics to award the ‘Outstanding ERAE Journal Article’ Award for 2015 to:

Email table of content alerts are delivered when a new issue publishes online, and Advance Access alerts are sent when content publishes ahead of print. Click the link and follow the instructions to sign up today! http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/6822/8

Modeling the Social Costs and Benefits of Biofuels: The Intersection of Environmental, Energy and Agricultural Policy ½ July 4-8, 2016 ½ 2 ECTS ½ Registration.

University of Bologna Experimental Auctions Summer School 2016.
The summer school "Experimental Auctions: Theory and Applications in Food Marketing and Consumer Preferences Analysis" is aimed at learning the fundamentals and the recent advances of experimental auctions. It will provide the appropriate techniques to construct an experimental design, with software applications and workshops regarding specific problems in the fields of food market valuation. It will also provide the appropriate knowledge of the models used in the experimental auction literature for the data analysis. Results interpretation and policy implications will be also discussed. Course date: 5-12 July 2016. Location: Palazzo delle Scienze, Corso Italia, 55, 95129 Catania CT, Italy. More information and registration: http://experimentalauctions.jimdo.com/

Members information

EAAE members have access to their own registration card. The EAAE login is available on the homepage of the EAAE using the email address and personal password. You can login here. There is also the option to retrieve the password when forgotten or to modify it. After login you will also find the link for free access of EuroChoices online!

As a member you have the possibility to post vacancies and non-EAAE events on the website of the EAAE. Please login and go to ‘Post events (congress, seminars, courses, PhD activities) and Jobs’ and choose ‘new’. The information will be visible on the website after the approval of the secretariat.

The EAAE has a small and part time secretariat.

Therefore we are not able to handle our mails on a daily basis and it can take a number of days before you get an answer of to approve the information for the website.

Studies in Agricultural Economics is included in the Thomson Reuters™ Web of Science™ Core Collection. It is a ‘platinum’ open access journal which means that there are no publication or access fees of any kind. Impact factor (CitEc, 2014): 0.18.

Manuscripts for publication should be prepared in English and sent via e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief at the address given below. If you do not wish to receive further alerts, please send an e-mail with the subject ‘unsubscribe’.

Dear Colleagues,The AIEAA Board appreciate your help in disseminating the announcement below (text in black) and the attached files among your members:

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the draft program of the 5th AIEAA Conference entitled "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy", to be held in Bologna on 16-17 June, 2016. Together with the four plenary presentations, the conference includes 3 organised sessions, 54 accepted papers and 16 accepted posters.

A pre-conference event on "The role of research in agriculture and the implementation of the European Innovation Partnership 'Agricultural productivity and sustainability'" will take place on Thursday, June 16, 2016 from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. During the pre-conference a poster session about research and innovation projects will be organized. Participants are invited to bring one or more posters about their ongoing research and innovation projects.

The registration for the conference is now open. You can access the conference management platform either directly athttps://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016 or through the AIEAA website (www.aieaa.org).

If you don't have an user account, please click on "Create account and register for conference" and follow the instructions. If you already have a user account, please log in with your username and password, select “Register as Participant” and follow the instructions.

If you are an author of an accepted paper or poster, please consider that, for presenting your contribution, at least one author of your paper/poster should register to the conference. The deadline for authors registrations is May 27st, 2016, but early registration fees deadline is April 30, 2016.

The pre-conference is free of charge, but for organisation raisons please register yourself: https://eventi.unibo.it/preconference-aieaa-dipsa-bologna-2016.

Information about venue and accommodation are available with the conference program.

Dear Colleagues,The AIEAA Board appreciate your help in disseminating the announcement below (text in black) and the attached files among your members:

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the draft program of the 5th AIEAA Conference entitled "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy", to be held in Bologna on 16-17 June, 2016. Together with the four plenary presentations, the conference includes 3 organised sessions, 54 accepted papers and 16 accepted posters.

A pre-conference event on "The role of research in agriculture and the implementation of the European Innovation Partnership 'Agricultural productivity and sustainability'" will take place on Thursday, June 16, 2016 from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. During the pre-conference a poster session about research and innovation projects will be organized. Participants are invited to bring one or more posters about their ongoing research and innovation projects.

The registration for the conference is now open. You can access the conference management platform either directly athttps://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016 or through the AIEAA website (www.aieaa.org).

If you don't have an user account, please click on "Create account and register for conference" and follow the instructions. If you already have a user account, please log in with your username and password, select “Register as Participant” and follow the instructions.

If you are an author of an accepted paper or poster, please consider that, for presenting your contribution, at least one author of your paper/poster should register to the conference. The deadline for authors registrations is May 27st, 2016, but early registration fees deadline is April 30, 2016.

The pre-conference is free of charge, but for organisation raisons please register yourself: https://eventi.unibo.it/preconference-aieaa-dipsa-bologna-2016.

Information about venue and accommodation are available with the conference program.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Bologna,

The 2016 AIEAA Local Organizing Committee and AIEAA board.

--

2016 AIEAA Conference

www.aieaa.org

aieaa2016@unibo.it

Dear Colleagues,The AIEAA Board appreciate your help in disseminating the announcement below (text in black) and the attached files among your members:

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the draft program of the 5th AIEAA Conference entitled "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy", to be held in Bologna on 16-17 June, 2016. Together with the four plenary presentations, the conference includes 3 organised sessions, 54 accepted papers and 16 accepted posters.

A pre-conference event on "The role of research in agriculture and the implementation of the European Innovation Partnership 'Agricultural productivity and sustainability'" will take place on Thursday, June 16, 2016 from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. During the pre-conference a poster session about research and innovation projects will be organized. Participants are invited to bring one or more posters about their ongoing research and innovation projects.

The registration for the conference is now open. You can access the conference management platform either directly athttps://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016 or through the AIEAA website (www.aieaa.org).

If you don't have an user account, please click on "Create account and register for conference" and follow the instructions. If you already have a user account, please log in with your username and password, select “Register as Participant” and follow the instructions.

If you are an author of an accepted paper or poster, please consider that, for presenting your contribution, at least one author of your paper/poster should register to the conference. The deadline for authors registrations is May 27st, 2016, but early registration fees deadline is April 30, 2016.

The pre-conference is free of charge, but for organisation raisons please register yourself: https://eventi.unibo.it/preconference-aieaa-dipsa-bologna-2016.

Information about venue and accommodation are available with the conference program.

The 5th annual Meeting of the AIEAA (Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics) will be held in Bologna, Italy, 16-17 June, 2016. The selected theme for the plenary sessions is "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy".

The deadline for extended abstract submission is January 31th 2016.

Submission of paper, poster and organised sessions abstracts is now active at the following link: https://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016/

For more information please visit the AIEAA website: http://www.aieaa.org/

The 5th annual Meeting of the AIEAA (Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics) will be held in Bologna, Italy, 16-17 June, 2016. The selected theme for the plenary sessions is "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy".

The deadline for extended abstract submission is January 31th 2016.

Submission of paper, poster and organised sessions abstracts is now active at the following link: https://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016/

For more information please visit the AIEAA website: http://www.aieaa.org/

The 5th annual Meeting of the AIEAA (Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics) will be held in Bologna, Italy, 16-17 June, 2016. The selected theme for the plenary sessions is "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy".

The deadline for extended abstract submission is January 31th 2016.

Submission of paper, poster and organised sessions abstracts is now active at the following link: https://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016/

For more information please visit the AIEAA website: http://www.aieaa.org/

The 5th annual Meeting of the AIEAA (Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics) will be held in Bologna, Italy, 16-17 June, 2016. The selected theme for the plenary sessions is "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy".

The deadline for extended abstract submission is January 31th 2016.

Submission of paper, poster and organised sessions abstracts is now active at the following link: https://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016/

For more information please visit the AIEAA website: http://www.aieaa.org/

The 5th annual Meeting of the AIEAA (Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics) will be held in Bologna, Italy, 16-17 June, 2016. The selected theme for the plenary sessions is "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy".

The deadline for extended abstract submission is January 31th 2016.

Submission of paper, poster and organised sessions abstracts is now active at the following link: https://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016/ For more information please visit the AIEAA website: http://www.aieaa.org/

The 5th annual Meeting of the AIEAA (Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics) will be held in Bologna, Italy, 16-17 June, 2016. The selected theme for the plenary sessions is "The changing role of regulation in the bio-based economy".

The deadline for extended abstract submission is January 31th 2016.

Submission of paper, poster and organised sessions abstracts is now active at the following link: https://www.conftool.net/aieaa2016/

For more information please visit the AIEAA website: http://www.aieaa.org/

Association of Agricultural Economists of Slovenia (DAES) is organizing the 7th Conference entitled “Analytical Support for Evidence Based Policy”. The conference will be held on the 8th and 9th of December 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

You can now bring out your vote for one of the candidates for the position of Vice-President!

Dear EAAE member,

According to our Constitution, we are now starting with the election for the position of Vice-President for the remaining of the 2014-2017 triennial period. At the end of this triennial period, when the President will retire the Vice-President will automatically be nominated by the Board for appointment as President for the coming three years.

The EAAE Board has selected two candidates for the position.

You can bring out your vote for one of the candidates for the position of Vice-President using the electronic ballot via the EAAE database. Please login here. You can vote until February 5th, 2016 – 17h/5pm.

The next General Assembly, which will be organized at one of the EAAE seminars planned to be held over the first 2016 semester, will be asked to confirm the result of the ballot and elect the new Vice-President.

You can now bring out your vote for one of the candidates for the position of Vice-President!

Dear EAAE member,

According to our Constitution, we are now starting with the election for the position of Vice-President for the remaining of the 2014-2017 triennial period. At the end of this triennial period, when the President will retire the Vice-President will automatically be nominated by the Board for appointment as President for the coming three years.

The EAAE Board has selected two candidates for the position.

You can bring out your vote for one of the candidates for the position of Vice-President using the electronic ballot via the EAAE database. Please login here. You can vote until February 5th, 2016 – 17h/5pm.

The next General Assembly, which will be organized at one of the EAAE seminars planned to be held over the first 2016 semester, will be asked to confirm the result of the ballot and elect the new Vice-President.

IAAE News Alert - August 2015

2015 IAAE Board of Directors Election Results

We are pleased to inform the members of the IAAE that Nick Vink has been voted President Elect of the new IAAE Board of Directors; Karen Brooks, Julian Alston and Steven Were Omamo have been voted Members-at-Large; and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel has been voted Secretary-Treasurer. On behalf of the members we would like to thank all candidates who ran for office on the IAAE Board of Directors, and we would especially like to thank Kei Otsuka (current Past President) and Kym Anderson (current Member-at-Large) whose terms will be ending when the new Board's term begins at the close of the upcoming ICAE in Milan. The newly elected members will be joining Jo Swinnen (who becomes Past President) and Will Martin (who becomes President) on the Board of Directors when the ICAE in Milan comes to a close.

Employment Opportunities

Center on Food Security and the Environment, Graduate School of Business, and Department of Earth Systems Science, Stanford UniversityPost-Doctoral Fellow

If you have any questions or trouble accessing the online ballot, please contact the IAAE Office at (414) 918-3199 or at iaae@execinc.com.

Studies in Agricultural Economics content alert

Studies in Agricultural Economics volume 117 number 1 pages 1-60 can now be accessed and downloaded free of charge at www.aki.gov.hu/studies. Click on ‘Current volume’ in the drop-down menu. This issue was published in cooperation with the European Rural Development Network (www.erdn.eu).

EAAE Seminar 150The spatial dimension in analysing the linkages between agriculture, rural development and the environmentOctober 22-23, 2015, Edinburgh (Scotland)
More information is on the website of the seminar.
1st deadline: Paper Submission: June 19th , 2015.

EAAE Seminar 147CAP Impact on Economic Growth and Sustainability of Agriculture and Rural AreasOctober 7-8, 2015, Sofia (Bulgaria)
More information is on the website of the seminar.1st deadline: Call for papers June 15th, 2015!

10th International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks

13-15 February, 2016, Igls/Innsbruck (Austria)

The website is available!1st deadline: Abstract submission and pre-registration: October 16, 2015

EAAE Seminar 149Structural change in agri-food chains: new relations between farm sector, food industry and retail sector
October 27-28, 2016, Rennes (France)
More information will be available as soon as possible!

Pre-conference event of the ICAE co-organised with the European Commission, the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC

The EAAE organises a session at the 29th ICAE conferenceRetail Pricing Strategies and Retailers-Manufacturers Bargaining in Food Markets
August 12, 2015, Milano (Italy)The programme of the EAAE session.
To register please visit the website of the ICAE.

The EAAE General Meeting will be held on June 9th, 5:45 PM at the venue of the PhD workshop (Roma Tre University). All EAAE members are invited to attend this meeting.

EAAE Seminar 150The spatial dimension in analysing the linkages between agriculture, rural development and the environmentOctober 22-23, 2015, Edinburgh (Scotland)
More information will be available as soon as possible!

EAAE Seminar 147:CAP Impact on Economic Growth and Sustainability of Agriculture and Rural AreasOctober 7-8, 2015, Sofia (Bulgaria)
The website is now online!1st deadline: Call for papers June 15th, 2015!

EAAE Seminar 149Structural change in agri-food chains: new relations between farm sector, food industry and retail sectorOctober 27-28, 2016, Rennes (France)
More information will be available as soon as possible!

Pre-conference event of the ICAE co-organised with the European Commission, the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC

The 55th Annual Conference of the German Society of Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture will be held at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany from Wednesday, 23rd to Friday 25th of September, 2015. The topic of the conference is: “Perspectives for Agriculture and the Food Economy after Liberalization”

Vacancies – because of an error in the last Newsflash, a repeat of the (valid) vacancies

EAAE Quality of Research Discovery and Quality of Policy Contribution Publication Awards for 2014

The EAAE is now seeking nominations in the two categories of Quality of Research Discovery and Quality of Policy Contribution for articles or other publications published in the calendar year 2014. Nominations are to be submitted using the Publication Award Nomination Form (available at www.eaae.org) and must be received by the Secretary-General of the Association (eaae.lei@wur.nl) by the 30th of April 2015.

The Publication Awards program of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) recognizes professional excellence in research contributing to the advancement of knowledge in areas related to food, agriculture and resource economics.

Nominations, decisions and the announcement of the results for the Publication Awards occur yearly; recipients of Awards are presented at the triennial Congress of the Association (the next one will be held in Parma, August 29-September 1, 2017).

The Publication Awards program of the EAAE includes three annual Awards:

the Outstanding ERAE Journal Article

the Quality of Research Discovery Award

the Quality of Policy Contribution Award.

For the Outstanding ERAE Journal Article Award, all articles published in the Review in 2014 are automatically eligible. The recipient is selected by the ERAE Editorial Board; there is therefore no formal nomination procedure.

For the Quality of Research Discovery and the Quality of Policy Contribution Awards for 2014, outstanding publications (articles or other publications) should be nominated by members of the Association, including self-nominations.

A publication can be nominated for the Quality of Research Discovery and the Quality of Policy Contribution Awards only if at least one of the authors is a member of EAAE (he/she must be member at the date of expiration of this Call (April 30, 2015)).

The Award recipients are proposed to the EAAE Board by the Publication Awards Selection Committee which remains in place for the Awards triennial period 2014-2016. The Committee is composed of nine members. The Past President and current President Elect of the Association, one of the co-Editors of the ERAE and the Editor of EuroChoices are ex-officio members of the Committee, with the Past President chairing the Committee; the remaining five members are appointed by the Board.

The lists of past winners of the Outstanding ERAE Journal Article, the Quality of Research Discovery and the Quality of Policy Contribution Awards are available on the EAAE website.

Giovanni Anania

EAAE President

The Quality of Research Discovery Award

The research must be a significant contribution to the field of knowledge in any of the areas of agricultural economics. The work should demonstrate excellence in research and may deal with conceptual as well as empirical analysis of a relevant issue.

Entries must have been published in 2014. For journal articles the date of publication is that of the issue; articles available on line in their final form on the journal’s web page, for which the 2014 issue in which they will appear is unequivocally known are eligible for the Award, even if the issue has not been published in print yet. Maximum one award is given.

EAAE members who wish to make a nomination for this Award (including self-nomination) should send it using the Publication Award Nomination Form (available at www.eaae.org). Nominations should be accompanied by an electronic copy of the publication, or a link to an open access source, and forwarded to the Secretary-General of the Association (eaae.lei@wur.nl). The nomination should contain a brief outline (not more than 250 words) setting out the contribution of the publication in the context of its research field, highlighting its innovations in either conceptual understanding, methodology or data, and giving reasons why it would be deserving the Award.

Publications nominated for the Research Discovery Award should be in the English language.

The Quality of Policy Contribution Award

This Award recognizes an outstanding publication contributing ex ante to, or analyzing ex post, policy decisions. The purpose of the Award is to recognise excellence and encourage interest in applied economic analysis that can provide timely and relevant information for more effective policy debate and decisions.

Entries must have been published in 2014. For journal articles the date of publication is that of the issue; articles available on line in their final form on the journal’s web page for which the 2014 issue in which they will appear is unequivocally known are eligible for the Award, even if the issue has not been published in print yet. Maximum one Award is given.

EAAE members who wish to make a nomination for this Award (including self-nomination) should send it using the Publication Award Nomination Form (available at www.eaae.org). Nominations should be accompanied by an electronic copy of the publication or a link to an open access source and forwarded to the Secretary-General of the Association (eaae.lei@wur.nl). The nomination should contain a brief outline (not more than 250 words) setting out the contribution of the publication to the policy debate, highlighting any evidence of its policy impact, and giving reasons why it would be deserving the Award.

Publications nominated for the Quality of Policy Contribution Award can be in any European language. However, nominations for publications which are not in English should, in addition, be accompanied by a short summary of the publication in English to assist the Selection Committee.

EAAE Events

NEW EAAE Seminar 147:CAP Impact on Economic Growth and Sustainability of Agriculture and Rural Areas
October 7-8, 2015, Sofia (Bulgaria)
The website is now online!Upcoming deadline: Call for papers May 15th, 2015!

As you know, the EAAE introduced in 2008 the Publication Awards program to recognize professional excellence in research contributing to the advancement of knowledge in areas related to food, agriculture and resource economics.

The Publication Awards program includes three annual Awards:

the Quality of Research Discovery Award

the Quality of Policy Contribution Award

the Outstanding ERAE Journal Article Award.

The recipient of the Outstanding ERAE Journal Article Award is selected by the Editorial Board of the ERAE.

The EAAE is now seeking nominations for the Quality of Research Discovery and Quality of Policy Contribution Awards for articles or other publications published in the calendar year 2014.

I am writing to ask if you would be willing to help us in this process by soliciting from members of the EAAE in your country nominations of publications or articles which were published in 2014 as possible recipients for the Quality of Research Discovery and Quality of Policy Contribution Awards. Needless to say, we would very much appreciate receiving nominations from you; we would like to stress that nominations from you will not be viewed as linked to your role as a Liaison Officer, but as the result of your own personal choice.

Our intention is to ensure that there is a reasonably representative selection of high quality papers from which the Publication Awards Selection Committee can make its final decision.

Nominations are to be submitted using the Publication Award Nomination Form and must be received by the Secretary-General of the Association (eaae.lei@wur.nl) by the 30th of April 2015.

For your convenience I am sending, attached, both the Call for nominations and the Nomination Form. You'll notice in the call for nominations that a publication is eligible only if at least one of the authors is a member of EAAE (he/she must be member at the date of expiration of this Call: April 30, 2015).

If you have further queries as to the process, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me.

There is only one national association in Serbia – the Serbian Association of Agricultural Economists (SAAE), which organized four EAAE Seminars and now we are in the preparation and implementation of the fifth EAAE Seminar in Serbiain Novi Sad in 2016.

Appreciating the decades-long successful relationship with EAAE, we decided that prof. Danilo Tomic, PhD will continueto be our liaison officers in the EAAE in the forthcoming period.

Colleague Tomic was creatively involved in organizing four EAAE Seminars which resulted in joining about 180 new members in the EAAE. We published proceedings of papers from three EAAE seminars, and after the fourth we prepared CD with all presented papers. All information obtained from the EAAE are available to our membership on the web-site of SAAE. We also prepared two applications for EAAE Congresses in 2014 and 2017, but sadly with no success. Currently we are in the process of intensive preparations for the EAAE Seminar in Novi Sad in 2016.